Fields was born in Port Allen, Louisiana and received his undergraduate and law degrees from Southern University in Baton Rouge. In 1980, he founded the fundraising group Young Adults for Positive Action and in 1987 he was elected to the Louisiana Senate. He ran for Congress in 1990 and was defeated but was re-elected to the State Senate in 1991.
He was elected to represent Louisiana's 4th congressional district in the House of Representatives in 1992 and re-elected in 1994. He ran for Governor in 1995, coming second in the jungle primary and then losing in a landslide to Mike Foster. He did not run for re-election to the House in 1996 and his seat was taken by Republican John Cooksey.
... predominant factor in the drawing of this map," explains Congressman Fields ... Cleo Fields published this content on March 24, 2025, and is solely responsible for the information contained therein.
CleoFields, a Democrat, captured the seat in last year’s election – adding a second Democrat to the state’s delegation. In raw political terms, the Supreme Court’s decision could leave Fields in power ...
The case, Louisiana v Callais, arrives at the supreme court after years of legal wrangling over Louisiana’s congressional map ...Related ... CleoFields, a BlackDemocrat, won the seat last fall ... “The State of Louisiana should be ashamed ... .
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is halfway to the next once-a-decade census, but the Supreme Court is still dealing with lawsuits that grew out of the last one ... The 5th U.S ... The district's voters last year elected CleoFields, a BlackDemocrat ... ___.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seemed closely divided Monday over a challenge to Louisiana's congressional map, which has two Black majority districts for the first time ... The district's voters last year elected CleoFields, a Black Democrat ... ___.
SCOTUS hears case on Louisiana congressional maps ...CleoFields, is a Democrat and the voters challenging the boundary lines say a “racial quota” cost the state a Republican seat in a narrowly divided Congress ... But the writing is on the wall, he said.